Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Soviet Republic of Australia: The Word ‘Drought’ is Too Upsetting for Farmers; ‘Dryness’ is More Comforting
October 27th, 2008No, this isn’t The Onion. Via: Telegraph: The word “drought” makes farmers feel depressed and should be replaced with “dryness”, a panel of Australian government experts has said. The group also warned farmers to get used to the lack of rain because dry conditions are expected to continue. “Words like drought … have negative connotations […]
Australia: No Opt-Out of Filtered Internet
October 17th, 2008Would you like filtered, or filtered? Via: Computerworld: Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government’s pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say. Under the government’s $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users can switch between two blacklists which block content inappropriate for children, and a […]
Proud American
October 6th, 2008I’ve never smoked crack before, but I’d guess that watching Proud American would produce similar effects. Nope, it’s not Idiocracy 2, but it is “Presented by CocaCola, MasterCard, American Airlines and WalMart.” Research Credit: JF
China Fakes Reports from Space
September 27th, 2008Via: Telegraph: China’s state news agency published a despatch from the country’s three latest astronauts describing their first night in space before they had even left Earth. The Xinhua agency, which has sometimes been accused of carrying state propaganda, took down the story and blamed it on a “technical error”. The article described the Shenzhou […]
Hookers and Bribes for U.S. Department of the Interior Officials; Thanks Oil Companies
September 11th, 2008Peak Corruption. Via: McClatchy: Interior Department officials, while handling billions of dollars in oil and gas royalty payments, engaged in illicit sex with industry employees and accepted meals, drinks, ski junkets and golf outings from major oil companies, internal investigators reported Wednesday. Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney’s release of three reports, which stem from […]
Moving to the Center of Elite Consensus
September 1st, 2008Via: Joe Bageant: Over the last many weeks we have all been subjected to endless news stories about Senator Obama’s campaign “Move to the Center”. Leaving aside the political illiteracy which underlines this phrase, the use of it reveals important clues about the rhetoric of electoral campaigns, whom they target and what they are trying […]
The T. Boone Pickens Water Swindle
August 27th, 2008I meant to post this a couple of months ago, but it got lost in the shuffle. Now that it’s on Reddit again, in a different story, here’s the original. Via: Business Week: Roberts County is a neat square in a remote corner of the Texas Panhandle, a land of rolling hills, tall grass, oak […]
Ignore That Logo Under the Tape!
August 20th, 2008Here’s a story about the almost delicious insanity of the Chinese regime. Via: Wall Street Journal: To ensure that only the companies that pay millions of dollars to be official Olympic sponsors enjoy the benefits of exposure in Olympic venues, organizers have covered the trademarks of nonsponsors with thousands of little swatches of tape. In […]
Vaccine Nation
August 19th, 2008For most people, vaccinating themselves and their children seems like a good idea. Vaccines are safe, effective and are supposed to protect us against dangerous infectious diseases — Right? Wrong! What you don’t know can harm you or kill you! In this groundbreaking film, you will: * See the truth about the dangers of vaccines […]
She’s Not Real
August 19th, 2008Interesting, from a PSYOP perspective. Via: Times: Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology. Emily – the woman in the above animation – was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be […]
